Bad Apple

Landing pad — full deep dive coming. This volume currently outlines what the deep dive will cover.

1.1 The phenomenon

“Bad Apple!!” as the demoscene/hacker benchmark — the silhouette animation that gets ported to run on everything. (To author: origin (Touhou), why it became the “does it run X” test.)

1.2 Notable ports

(To author: oscilloscopes, calculators, microcontrollers, terminals, unexpected hardware.)

1.3 Why it matters

(To author: what porting Bad Apple demonstrates about a platform.)